CNN's dumbest news question, evar

@RogerKnights
I would shy away from attributing to the pilots without solid evidence. Note the tie in with politics in Malaysia which means a tie-in could be real or it could deliberately be spun as such.

This clip is just one of the reasons I’ve totally cut myself off from the MSM. When one thinks the MSM has plumbed the depths of stupidity, it just keeps on digging. CNN is one obnoxious station that I make a significant effort to avoid but Atlanta airport seems to have all of its multiple TV’s tuned to CNN only and at a loud volume. Just one of the reasons I hate long waits between flights in Atlanta.
From online sources I’ve learned that CNN seems to be covering this missing plane story to the exclusion of just about anything else; WWIII potentially starting in the near future yet what bills itself as a news source seems transfixed with a single missing airliner which was likely hijacked by the pilot. Considering that the pilot was highly skilled, had his own 777 simulator at home combined with significant developments in Malaysian politics occurring the day of the flight, one probably has a terrestial explanation for the disappearance.
I must admit that I didn’t watch the full video as the idiotic answer by the first woman to reply that a black hole would have swallowed the universe was a signal that I had watched enough. Obviously she hadn’t read much of physics since the 1920’s. Someone with a modicum of physics knowledge would have answered that, yes, a microscopic black hole could certainly have downed the airliner, but the radiation signature of the black hole as it sucked up air molecules and spewed out gamma rays during its travels through the atmosphere would have created a radiation signature which would have set off alarm bells on all of the radiation monitoring satellites which are designed to detect nuclear tests on earth. Given the absence of such a signal one would have to rule out the tiny black hole hypothesis. Of course, the black hole theorists would likely counter that there’s an international conspiracy to suppress such data which can be checked out easily; if there’s a sudden upsurge in international interest in constructing human habitations on the moon or at Lagrangian points, then governments must be aware of a black hole at the center of the earthy greedily ingesting the earths core. A meteorite hitting the aircraft is a far more likely possibility than a black hole, but then we’re dealing with individuals who have basically zero knowledge of science and an audience who has lost the ability for critical thought. The scary thing is that Putin might be forwarded this clip as part of an assessment regarding the US’s ability to counter his moves which would likely make him overconfident.
My personal, albeit non-scientific surveys, of individuals demonstrate an inverse correlation between the amount of TV that people watch and their scientific knowledge. Such individuals may possess detailed knowledge of some area gleaned from one of the “scientific” programs that appear on some cable TV channels, but most often they have no framework within to place that datum. The longer I go with absolutely no exposure to the MSM, the more difficult I find it to engage in non-medical conversations with patients as many of them will ask me about show x and character y neither of which I have ever heard of. People make analogies between behavior of character z and some event and I have to inform the patient that I haven’t a clue what they’re talking about. Similarly, I bring up material I’ve seen on WUWT and other reputable climate sites and these seem to be just as foreign to patients. It appears that we’re rapidly becoming a society of the ignorant who are totally unaware of their degree of ignorance and a diminishing number of the population who have a good basic knowledge of the sciences. Given that school is now primarily about “self esteem” and science has been so dumbed down that it’s unrecognizable, the future would seem to lie with those countries who still believe in a rigorous science education for everyone.

Ladies and Gentlemen,
CNN have just had their, Jump The Shark, moment.
Forever more, Black Holes will be the reason for all things non understandable:
– Why has there been no global warming? Because Black Holes sucked all the warm air away.
– Why doesn’t Obamacare work? Because Black Holes keep ruining the economics of it.
– Where did all the Bitcoin money go from Mt Gox? Black Holes swallowed them up.
– Why are CNN ratings so poor? Because a Black Hole’s gravity is keeping them down.
– Why are Democrates so stupid? Because they each have a Black Hole instead of a brain.
– Why are Republicans so ignorant? Because gravitational lensing effects of Black Holes keep distorting reality.
– Why can’t Congress do anything right? Because the thermodynamics of so many Black Holes close together are still yet not understood, so we have to wait for more stupid theories of Black Holes to be created, thus Congress, sits around just looking at all the Black Holes in the room.
And here’s the Big One! Since Black Holes are just theoretical, and that is, NO ONE, has ever photographed or discovered a Black Hole, and that we still don’t know if they exist. Kind of like the stupid nonsense of Global Warming. Once again, we take theoretical concepts, computer simulations, and Hollywood SFX, and make them fact.
I thought science was all about the Scientific Method.
Very interesting how people selectively choose when to use the Scientific Method, and when to not choose it. Like deGrasse Tyson’s ridiculous Cosmos fantasy and science-fiction vacuous sojourn, go unnotice and cause more harm to Science than anything a complete blubbering imbecile on CNN can do.
Nice to see once again, how wattsupwiththat.com has its priorities right again.
So my question is where are the real Black Holes?

I only believe what the National Enquirer publishes. Until it’s in NE, I’m not believing anything.

“…including people noting the eerie parallels to Lost and The Twilight Zone…”
Actually, it reminded me more of the Bond film “Thunderball”:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderball_(film)

I see the word ‘evar’ was used in the headline, correctly I might ad. But I prefer the word ‘evah’, it sounds just a bit more mocking in some obscure way.

CNN is enjoying a momentary resurgence on this issue, so they will milk it for all they can. The sad part is they look exactly like a broadcast version of “The Globe” or some other hysterical rag. I guess they found their niche. The National Enquirer of broadcast TV.

We know that our news sources have reached rock bottom, when they post twitter comments as part of their newscast. I don’t give a flying fig what someone on Twitter thinks.